Welcome back to Ask D’Mine – the web’s most quirky yet informative diabetes Q & A column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
This week, Wil’s exploring the term “Type 3,” and he’s taking a look into the toilet bowl for us — errr, so to speak, as he explores urine issues with diabetes. Never a dull moment here at the ‘Mine!
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OMG… did you all know that Halle Berry is pregnant?!
The actress who is also a fellow PWD (person with diabetes) is having her second child. At age 46.
Seriously, the news is out. We tweeted it a few weeks ago. Everyone is talking about this — magazines and entertainment news sources galore.
OK, celebrity dish fans may care more about this news than we do, but what makes it relevant to the Diabetes Community…
There’s been a longstanding discussion among patient advocates over the need for new, more descriptive names that would better differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The debate has hit a climax this week, in the wake of a new online petition issued by two passionate D-Moms, who’ve gathered more than 2,800 signatures to date and even enlisted the support of some renown researchers in their call for a “rebranding” of disease types.
The…
In theory, diagnosing diabetes should be fairly simple. Have a fasting blood sugar over 127 mg/dL? Congratulations, you’re probably in the D-Club. Have a blood sugar reading over 200 mg/dL any time? Congratulations, you’re definitely a club member.
But not so fast! Just because you’ve been inducted into the club that no one voluntarily joins, that doesn’t mean the path forward is clear. Things just aren’t the same — or as easy to recognize — as…
When you see news about diabetes being linked to “brain shrinkage,” it can be tough to take that seriously and not smirk about the silliness of headlines.
But the links between diabetes and brain disease are more serious and substantial than many once thought, even just a few years ago when the media reported that a new type of diabetes — type 3 — had been discovered.
Now, this isn’t to be confused with the…